Unloading and elevating apparatus



(No Model.)

M. J. MONELLY.

UNLOADING AND ELEVATING APPARATUS.

No. 310,699. Patented Jan. 13, 1885.

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ATTORNEYS.

Warren STATES MATTHIAS J. MONELLY, OF

ATENT trier- WVILMINGTON, DELAW'ARE.

UNLOADING AND ELEVATENG APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,699, dated January 13, 1885.

Application filed OCtJbBI' El, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATTHIAS J. MoNnLLY, of Wilmington, in the county of New Castle and State of Delaware, have invented a new and Improved Unloading and Elevating Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to economize time and labor in unloading, elevating, and transferring coal, sand, or other substances.

The invention consists in an unloading and elevating apparatus constructed with a chute arranged below a railwaytrack, a pit below the chute, into which an elevator-bucket running 011 tracks of a trestle or frame may pass, so as to receive the material discharged from the chute, which is elevated by the bucket and discharged therefrom into a hopper supported on the trestle over tracks on which transfercars may run to receive the material from the hopper and deliver it at any point below.

The invention consists, also, in particular constructions and combinations of parts of the apparatus, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved apparatus, showing in dotted lines the position of the elevator-bucket when dumping its load into the overhead receptacle; and Fig. 2 is a front view of the elevator-bucket.

The letter A indicates a trestle or frame, which has tracks a a at the top, on which the transfer-car 13 runs, so as to discharge its loads of coal or other material into any one of a series of bins or in separate heaps below the trestle.

G is the road-bed alongside of which the trestle is built, and 011 which the tracks 0 c of the main line of railway or a siding thereof are laid, so that the cars D may be run along or from the main track directly over an inclined floor or chute, E, built under the track, to dump their loads into said chute.

F is a gate fitted at the outer end of the chute E, and having any suitable mechanism such as a lever, fby which it may be lifted. or opened to let the coal G or other material dumped from the cars D fall into the elevatorbucket H, which rests in a side of tracks 0 c.

J are tracks, which are fastened by braces k or otherwise to the face-posts K of the trestle A, and extend upward from the pit I and curve inward at the top, as at j, to allow the opposite side rollers, h h, of the elevator-bucket H to move inward as the bucket dumps its load into the hopper or receptacle L, fixed to the trestle A, so that the cars B may be run below the hopper to be loaded therefrom, the hopper having a bottom inclining toward an outlet closed by a sliding gate, M, which may be opened by operating a lever, m, suitably attached to the hopper and gate.

N is the hoisting rope or cable, which is connected to the bail O of the bucket H and passes over a pulley or sheave, P, j ournaled at the head of the posts K and it may be over a rear pulley, Q, to be wound on a drum (not shown) driven by any convenient motor.

I fix to the posts K the elastic or yielding trip-bars R, (dotted,) having hook-heads r, on which the front plate or nose of the bucketH must catch as it rises. Abar, B, may be fixed to each of the pair of posts K, to catch the bucket at or near its opposite sides or ends, to which the rollers h h are pivoted; but :a single trip-bar, B, may be fastened to the center of a cross-beam connecting the two posts K, to catch the center of the front of the bucket, if desired. The lower ends of the tracks J are curved outward, as at j, to carry the back wall of the bucket H well underneath the end of the chute E as the bucket rests on the floor of the pit I, (see Fig. 1,) so that all the material G shall pass into the bucket from the chute.

The operation is as follows: The coal or other material G having been dumped from the railwaycars D into the chute E, and the bucket H having been lowered to the pit I, the gate F will be opened, and the coal G will antomatically dump itself into the bucket,which then is hoisted by the rope N until it strikes the hook-heads of the trip-bars R, and a con tinued hoisting of the bucket will carry it inward on the curved ends j of the tracks J, and cause it to be swung, as in dotted lines in Fig. 1, to discharge its load into the hopper L, the trip-bars R yielding backward to allow the front or nose of the bucket to stand well within the hopper, so that it shall receive the enpit, I, built at the IOC tire contents of the bucket, which now may be lowered for its next load. The coal or other material may then be delivered from the hopper L into the transfer-car B and dumped therefrom at any point below the tracks a a.

It will be seen that the coal or other material may quickly be removed from the railway-cars D and be elevated and transferred to any desired point in the yard below the trestle without hand-shoveling, thereby largely economizing time and labor.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An unloading and elevating apparatus constructed with a chute below the railway track, a pit at-the side of the track, an adjacent trestle having tracks on which a hoisting-bucket runs, a hopper or receptacle supported on the trestle to receive the material from the bucket and deliver it to transfercars, and means for hoisting the bucket and dumping its contents, substantially as herein set forth.

2. In unloading and elevating apparatus, the combination, with the chute E, pit I, and bucket H, of the trestle-tracks J', having outwardly-curvcd lower ends, j, to carry the bucket well under the end of the chute, substantially as herein set forth.

8. In an unloading and elevating apparatus, the combination, with the elevator-bucket H and hopper L, of tracks J, having inturned upper en'ds, j, and of the yielding trip-bars R, having hook ends 7*, substantially as herein set forth.

4L. The combination, in an unloading and elevating apparatus, of a chute, E, under the railway-track, and having a gate, F, and means for opening it, a pit, I, below the chute, a trestle, A, supporting tracks J, havingeoutwardly-bent lower ends, j, and inturned upper ends, j, yielding trip-bars R, having hookheads 1, and an elevating-bucket, H, adapted to the tracks J, and means for hoisting the bucket, and a hopper, L, supported on the trestle to receive the contents of the bucket H and deliver the same to transfer-cars below it, substantially as herein set forth.

MATTHIAS J. MONELLY.

Witnesses:

PETER SPRINGER, J OHN O. Come. 

